Flu campaign – 50-64 age groups

Posted on November 20th, 2020

Many of you will have seen this morning’s announcement from the Department of Health and Social Care announcing that the seasonal flu vaccine will be available to everyone over 50 on the NHS from December.

We were as surprised by this as many of you will have been, particularly given that the start date is 11 days away, and that this was first that the GP practices and pharmacies who are apparently to deliver the vaccine had heard of it.

While we finalise details, please do not call reception to try to book an appointment. As with the normal seasonal flu campaign this year, we cannot safely run this from 37 Park Road, as this would involve asking large numbers of people to come into a building where we’re seeing unwell patients, on top of the risk that any of our patients are asymptomatic carriers of Covid-19.

As such, we will need to talk to our community partners to identify sites we can run the campaign from. Once we have done that and confirmed a delivery date for the vaccines, we will send out invitations and get as many of you vaccinated as quickly, and as safely, as we possibly can.